Search Results: Titles starting with V from PATRICK POLLAK RARE BOOKS

. Quarto format, double column, The Vagrant no.1 comprises pp.6, the issue of The Constable has pp.8, together with a copy of a typescript sheet giving a history of the production [by C. H. PERRY], names of contributors hitherto hidden under pseudonyms and brief biographies. The Constable issue with some foxing, both with small edge tears and beginning to split at the centre folds, otherwise good copies. *COPAC records the British Library copies only. The very scarce copies of the in-house journals of the Working Men's College, London; they are not recorded in the centenary History of the College, by J. F. C. HARRISON. The College was first established in 1854 by the founders of Christian Socialism, Frederick Denison Maurice, Charles Kingsley, Thomas Hughes and R. B. Litchfield [who married Henrietta Darwin, Charles Darwin's daughter].

Vacher & Son. Westminster. [1833]. . pp. 36. Original printed wrappers, a very good copy.

Oxford University Press. London. 1958.. pp. xv, (i), 297, Paper wrappers, possibly a proof copy, very good condition.

Manchester. May, 1931. 2 volumes. 4to and folio. . ff. 122; 209. Many diagrams and X-ray photographs. Binder's cloth, library and presentation book-plates, very good copies. *Sodium aurothiosulfate, an inorganic compound Na3Au(S2O3)2·2H2O containing an anionic linear coordination complex of gold bound to two thiosulfate ligands. Like several other gold compounds, it is used as an antirheumatic. The first placebo-controlled trial was conducted in 1931, when sanocrysin was compared with distilled water for the treatment of tuberculosis.

Published for The Facsimile Text Society by Columbia University Press. New York. 1931.. pp. (x), (xxxii), 250, (vi). A very good copy in the original cloth, with a printed Review slip from the OUP loosely added. *This title comprises VOLUME 6, SERIES III : Philosophy, The Facsimile Text Society.

Kegan Paul a.o. London. 1903.. pp. (iv), 415, (v). 30 figures. Original cloth, spine faded and a bit worn at the ends.

John Murray. London. 1905. Popular edition. 2 volumes.. pp. xv, (i) blank, 566, (ii) Advertisement. 43 illustrations on 24 plates; xii, 605, (i) blank, (vi) Advertisement. Murray's leaf-green cloth with the arches design on the covers, the text reset and the text figures now on plates, a very good set. *FREEMAN #920 - first published in 1868, this is the final Murray edition.

Julius Springer. Berlin. 1935.. pp. (245)-425, (i). 13 illustrations. Paper wrappers [lacking rear cover], Hirschfeld's inscription [to MACDONALD CRITCHLEY]. *Offprint from Handbuch der Neurologie.

1576.. 2 vellum sheets - SIZE : c. 28 x 23 inches [c. 72 x 59 cms.] written in a beautiful Secretary hand, signed by Sir Rowland Hayward, George and John Barne, with their wax seals [now long disintegrated], usual folds and dusty at the edges, in very nice condition. *This indenture is one of the three copies which would have been made, one for each party to the agreement [See Bedford County Archives inventory no. KK8 for another of these copies]. The Manor of Leighton Alias Grovebury was granted by John, Second Duke of Suffolk to Saint George's Chapel, Windsor in 1479, who held it until 1863 (with a break between 1649 and 1660 when, under The Commonwealth, deans and chapters were abolished) when it was conveyed to Colonel H. Hanmer. It remained in that family until acquired by J.T. Mills early in the 20th century. In the early 1920s a succession of Law of Property Acts abolished copyhold tenure leaving the Lord of the Manor nothing but an empty title. The Dean and Chapter leased the manor to… Read More

American Association for the Advancement of Science. Washington. 1956.. pp. xii, 467, (i). Illustrations. Very good copy. *61 papers on venom-producing animals across the world.

No publisher. No place [?Paris]. 1751. Sixieme Édition, revue & augmentée. [First 1745]. 12mo. . pp. 5, (i) Errata, (ii) blank, 240. Contemporary calf, spine with gilt panels and raised bands, characteristic wear to edges and corners, joints firm and contents bright with very wide margins, book-plate of ALFRED BRAITHWAITE, ex libris RICHARD FREEMAN, Darwin scholar, with a few of his notes at the front - 'stock evolutionary quotation is on p.175', a nice copy with excellent provenance. *TOGETHER WITH : BASSET DE ROSIERS, Gilles. L'Anti-Venus Physique. Premiere Partie. Ou Critique de la Dissertation Sur l'origine des Hommes & des Animaux. N'éveillez point le chat qui dort [Let sleeping dogs (or cats) lie]. No publisher. No place. 1746. First edition. 12mo. in 8s. pp. (iv), 219, (i) blank. Title to Part II tipped-in before p.145. Part I : Critique de la Dissertation Pre'tendue Physique a l'occasion du Negre Blanc; Part II : La Critique de la Dissertation Sur l'origine des Noirs. Contemporary… Read More

The Boar's Head Press. [Christopher Sandford, Manaton, Devon]. [1936/7].. pp. (ii) blank, 45, (i). Tiny dent in the fore-edge margin of the rear board, very faintly foxed at the ends, else a very good copy in original blue cloth.

[Belfast Hospital Management Committee. Belfast]. 1969.. pp. xiii, (i), 114. Frontispiece, 18 plates. Dust wrapper, signed inscription from the author to 'Mac', a very good copy.

George G. Harrap. London. 1929. 4to.. pp. 231, (i). 12 coloured plates, line drawings in text and decorated end-papers, cover design in gilt, all by ARTHUR RACKHAM. Original cloth gilt, uncut, top edge gilt, front cover a bit marked, scattered foxing, book-plate removed from half-title not affecting text.

Lingdales Press. Formby. 1995. LIMITED EDITION, 123 of 500 copies.. pp. (ii), ii, 141. Many illustrations. Dust wrapper, a very good copy.

Barrie & Jenkins. London. 1980. Small folio.. pp. 96. 32 coloured plates, 90 illustrations in black and white. Dust wrapper, a very good copy.

Dent, London; Rowman and Lilttlefield, Totowa, N.J. 1976.. pp. xxii, (ii), 252. 8 plates. An ex-library copy with usual stamps, signature of SALLY LEDGER and some of her pencil marginalia, a good working copy. *SALLY LEDGER [1961-2009], was a Professor of Victorian literature who made major contributions to the fields of nineteenth-century women's writing, literary feminism, and the study of Charles Dickens.

Methuen. London. 1915.. pp. viii, 415, (i) blank, (iv) Advertisements, 31, (i) Catalogue. Original cloth, tear at the head of the spine repaired, else a clean, firm copy.

Plon-Nourrit. [Paris]. No date [c.1893?]. Oblong 4to.. pp. (iii), 4-47, (i). Illustrated throughout in colour by chromo-photo-zincography. Original cloth, boards decorated with rows of daisy-heads, the front cover with a spray of golden chrysanthemums, covers a little darkened around the edges, else a nice copy of a very pretty book.

George Whitelaw and Charles Evans. London. 1851.. pp. 44. Five-fold frontispiece panorama of London in 1560, folding view of London before and during the great fire of 1666, 17 text wood engravings, some full page. Original pictorial boards, spine ends and corners a bit worn, the frontispiece with a tear at the attachment and in a couple of folds all without loss, joints firm, a good copy overall.